Austrian Action Begins This Week

Monday, 9 January 2017

The Winter Poker Championship Seefeld 2017 is set to run from February 16 to February 26 and online poker players are being offered the chance to win a prize package into the Austrian tournament series’ main event for as little as $3.30.

Set to take place in the picturesque Austrian ski resort town of Seefeld, which is located approximately 16 miles northwest of the city of Innsbruck, the Winter Poker Championship Seefeld 2017 will feature a €2,160 ($2,286) buy-in no-limit hold‘em main event that is expected to have a prize pool approaching €755,766 ($800,000).

For those eager to compete but unable or unwilling to pay the full buy-in, Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are to run month-long and three-step online poker satellite series from Wednesday that are to hand out prize packages worth $4,000 prize into the main event of the Winter Poker Championship Seefeld 2017. The pair revealed that the winners will receive their full main event buy-in alongside travel and accommodation expenses.

“I was totally blown away by Seefeld,” said Tim O’Keefe, a player at Intertops Poker that won his seat into last year’s edition of the Austrian extravaganza courtesy of a similar online poker satellite series. “I’d never been to Europe. They play a lot different over there; much more aggressive than the casinos in Oklahoma and Texas. It was a great experience and I am now a schnitzel-lover for life.”

The Horizon Poker Network sites additionally declared that this weekend will see them run a special promotion offering doubled reload bonuses. To take advantage of this campaign, Intertops Poker players should enter the coupon code ‘CAPT2017’ while ‘AUT2017’ is the code for Juicy Stakes.

“Both Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes welcome players from anywhere in the world,” read the statement from Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker. “We’re the busiest online poker rooms on the Horizon Poker Network and also offer a selection of casino games. From January 11 to January 17, for every four hands of blackjack, players will get a fifth hand free with the free hand value being the average of the four bets.”

Video: Online poker players can win their way to Austrian main event

Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker will be running three-step online poker satellite tournament series until February 22.

Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”